Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-12
NEWS AND NOTES.

John Price of Youngstown, Ohio, talks
in his sleep, and this has given his wife the
evidence to secure divorce.
Miss Mary Baker of Marion, White
county, Ind, has not eaten anything for les
days. She is not hungry, and the smell of all
kinds of food Is offensive to her.
New York city was never more pros
porous than to- day. The estimated cost of new
buildings projected the first three months of
the year is place at the sum of $22 0O0, 900 This
Is S. coo 900 more than for the same period last
year.
James R. Randall, long chief editor of
the Augusta (Ga } Chronicle, and author of
maryland, My Maryland" has removed to
Admission, Ala, where he will edita new daily
paper in which he is financially interested.
The age of chivalry is not dead. When
Sarah Bernhardt reached Boston the ground
was covered with snow. She could not reach
her carriage without passing through about
three feet of slush. Maurice GraU thereupon
took on his overcOst and spread 1t down for the
Madame to walk upon.
Theodore TiltOn is reported as about to
visit New York again, after an absence of ten
years. 1t is also said that there is woman in
the case. She is Mrs. Louise Curtis Billiard, q
fascinating woman of high social position in
New York, with whom Mr. TiltOn became in
fatuated years ago. and whom he followed
abroad
More and more every year the attract
ions of California as a region of winter resorts
are becoming better known to the grand army
of health and pleasure seekers, foreign and do
mestiC. The San francisco Call gives a signif-
cant hint of the westward drift 1t says that
thirty three new hotels are to be erected this
season in Los Angeles county. The cost Of
these establishments will range from $4,000 to
100000.
The following is the inscription on q
brass tablet which has recently been placed in
the window of the south transom of S.. Johns
church WQshtOptOn ESTkiG in
in memory of Chester Allan Arthur is placed
here by the vestry. He was the twenty first
President Of the United States, worshiper in
the church and in 1884 erected the window 70
the memory of his wife. He died November is,
1856"
There is an odd suggestion concerning
the proposed disUse of the word undertaken. -
reformer proposes that undeItakers shall be
known as ''thapists.' He goes to the Greek
for for the word, but does he maliCiOusly mean
to turn Us into a nation of Hspers. "Thapists'
must have been the word that msde Den osthe-
mes stutter before the happy thought Of put
ting pebbles in his mouth occurred to him.
Henry S. Ives, who suddenly shot into
prominen in Wall street as a negetiator for
the purchase OF the Baltimore and Ohio, Rail
read, is young Brooklynite just twenty one
years age Jay could was lately quoted as
saying contemptuOusly of him that he (Gould)
had heard before of young NapoleOns of FL
nance" like Ferdinand Ward. This led Gould
to say that not only had he not said anything
OF the sort, but that on the contrary he re
CARDS young Ives as one of the brightest men in
Wall street,
A Westchester, Pa, telegram says: A
valuable brood mare belonging to the stock
farm of Norman Barnard, near AvOndale
broke her leg recently, and Or. Ewing, of West
Grove, set the broken ipb and left IL in good
condition. In the animals plunges afterward
the leg was again broken, and DR.. HuidkOper
of the University of Pennsylvania, having been
sent for, advised amputatiOn. Tats was done,
md no AMIR al Is IN he Ia
This is the first case On record of such an ope-
ration IN America.